Activity 2.3 – Biosphere and Interconnections

    Concept Map of Chapter 4: Energy and Ecosystems, informed the reader how energy is measured, transforms, its scientific principles, and how it generates life in ecosystems.

    Concept Map of Chapter 7: Biodiversity, informed the reader what is biodiversity, its value to human societies and wildlife, and scientific classification system to organize and label life forms.

    Concept Map of Chapter 8: Biomes and Ecozones, informed the reader the multiple different biomes and sub-types, and how we can map them as Ecozones to assist in ecological conservation and adaptation.


    In "Environmental Science: A Canadian Perspective" by Bill Freedman Chapter four(4), seven(7), and eight (8), throughout each of these three chapters, they would reference each other's information building on top of knowledge previously gained from the previous chapter and interconnect information. The textbook initially informs the reader how an ecosystem is classified so that we can study it. This allowed us to understand the application of energy and energy transfers in all life forms. It was referenced in the following selected chapter, "Biodiversity". In "Biodiversity" it delves into further classification of life based on the laws of energy and how humans can exploit our natural biological system for improving our own quality of life, yet also destroying our ecosystems that supports it. Finally in "Biomes and Ecozones", it mentions the various wildlife cycles  that exists in various biome. It provided examples of  the type of heterotrophs and autotrophs that would live in these biomes who are adept at surviving these ecozones and meet a "balanced" criteria for energy transfers to not overpopulate, nor become extinct.

Although the textbook itself, or at least these selected chapters do not reference or inform the reader of what the concept of a Biosphere is, these chapters define the different energy transfers, wildlife, and environments that lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere contain, how they function and ultimately interconnect with one another.